2009 Open Championship
| Dates | 16–19 July 2009 |
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| Location | Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Course(s) | Ailsa Course, Turnberry |
| Tour(s) |
European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,204 yards (6,587 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 73 after cut |
| Cut | 144 (+4) |
| Prize fund |
£4,200,000 €4,852,724 $6,837,628 |
| Winner's share | £750,000 €866,558 $1,221,005 |
 Stewart Cink
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| 278 (−2), playoff | |
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The 2009 Open Championship was the 138th Open Championship, held 16–19 July at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewart Cink won his only major championship after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson. Watson, age 59, had the chance to win his sixth Open and become the oldest major champion in history during regulation play, but was unable to par the final hole and tied with Cink.
It was the fourth Open Championship at Turnberry; the previous winners were Watson in 1977, Greg Norman in 1986, and Nick Price in 1994.
As with previous editions of The Open Championship at Turnberry, this event was played on the resort's Ailsa Course. Since it last hosted the Championship in 1994, the course had been lengthened by almost 250 yards (230 m), with over 60 yards (55 m) having been added to the par 5 17th hole. Six new tees had been built, and the 16th hole was 45 yards (41 m) longer and had been remodelled into a dog-leg to the right, having previously been relatively straight.
Ailsa Course
Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship:
Each year, around two thirds of The Open Championship field consists of players that are fully exempt from qualifying for the Open. Below is a list of the exemption categories, and the players who were exempt for the 2009 Open. Each player is classified according to the first category by which they qualified, with other categories they also fall into being shown in parentheses. Some categories are not shown as all players in that category had already qualified from an earlier category:
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